Tony is reading an advertisement in a magazine.  It is about different evening classes or weekend classes.
The Learning Centre, Garden City
We have evening and weekend courses on ...
test preparation            friends and meeting people
jobs and making money     cooking and language learning
Some of this month's courses:
1. Get good grades!
Do you forget information and do poorly on tests? In this course, learn to...
※ remember more (95 percent of what you read).
※ think quickly and read fast (400 words per minute!).
※ do well on tests and get high scores.
2. Find true love...today!
Are you single and shy? Is it hard for you to talk to people?
In this course, learn to...
talk to people; start a conversation with a man or woman.
be more friendly and outgoing.
※ understand a person's body language.
3. You are on TV!
Many actors get their start in television. You can too! In this course, learn to...
※ act in TV ads.
※ use your voice on the radio.
※ get TV and radio jobs.
4. Cook delicious and healthy food!
Are you interested in cooking? Do you want to keep healthy? In this course, learn to...
※ keep a balanced diet.
※ cook delicious traditional Chinese food.
※ make western-style food. This course is also online al www. dffh. net. cn.
【小题1】In the Learning Center, you won't learn how to______.

A．prepare for a test

B．make money

C．learn a language

D．get along well with others

【小题2】After taking course 1, you can't_______.

A．think quickly

B．improve your memory

C．remember everything you read

D．finish reading a 200-word passage in 30 seconds

【小题3】After taking course 3, you can learn how to_______.

A．become an actor (actress)

B．become a radio reporter

C．become a TV host (hostess)

D．get a job in a radio station

【小题4】Which course is allowed to take online?

A．Course 4.

B．Course 3.

C．Course 2.

D．Course 1.

【小题5】What's the advertisement about?

A．Finding true love.

B．Getting good jobs.

C．Cooking delicious food.

D．Different evening and weekend classes.

Tony is reading an advertisement in a magazine.  It is about different evening classes or weekend classes.
The Learning Centre, Garden City
We have evening and weekend courses on ...
test preparation            friends and meeting people
jobs and making money     cooking and language learning
Some of this month's courses:
1. Get good grades!
Do you forget information and do poorly on tests? In this course, learn to...
※ remember more (95 percent of what you read).
※ think quickly and read fast (400 words per minute!).
※ do well on tests and get high scores.
2. Find true love...today!
Are you single and shy? Is it hard for you to talk to people?
In this course, learn to...
talk to people; start a conversation with a man or woman.
be more friendly and outgoing.
※ understand a person's body language.
3. You are on TV!
Many actors get their start in television. You can too! In this course, learn to...
※ act in TV ads.
※ use your voice on the radio.
※ get TV and radio jobs.
4. Cook delicious and healthy food!
Are you interested in cooking? Do you want to keep healthy? In this course, learn to...
※ keep a balanced diet.
※ cook delicious traditional Chinese food.
※ make western-style food. This course is also online al www. dffh. net. cn.
【小题1】In the Learning Center, you won't learn how to______.

A．prepare for a test

B．make money

C．learn a language

D．get along well with others

【小题2】After taking course 1, you can't_______.

A．think quickly

B．improve your memory

C．remember everything you read

D．finish reading a 200-word passage in 30 seconds

【小题3】After taking course 3, you can learn how to_______.

A．become an actor (actress)

B．become a radio reporter

C．become a TV host (hostess)

D．get a job in a radio station

【小题4】Which course is allowed to take online?

A．Course 4.

B．Course 3.

C．Course 2.

D．Course 1.

【小题5】What's the advertisement about?

A．Finding true love.

B．Getting good jobs.

C．Cooking delicious food.

D．Different evening and weekend classes.

Dear Reader,
Imagine an 11-year old girl whose days are often spent washing clothes, looking after a baby, working hard in the field.
Imagine a little girl who knows there will not be enough food for dinner, who can’t fill her stomach with water because it’s polluted, and who has watched life slip away from her father, little brother and sister because the family is too poor to see a doctor.
Is it hard to believe? For Maria Pastora, these are the real life.
Maria would gladly walk miles to school, but her mother, now alone, needs her badly at home. If Maria grows up without any schooling, what will be her future?
But for just 52 pennies a day, you can sponsor a child like Maria. Through “Save the Children”, you can help Maria’s mother get the tools and ways she needs to turn their poor food into a good dinner and the money she needs to buy clothes and school things for Maria.
To help Maria most, your money is put together with that of other sponsors, so hard-working people can help themselves. Build a school, a hospital…bring in clean water. This is what “Save the Children” has been about since 1932.
For you there are many rewards. Have the chance to write to or hear from your sponsored child. Receive photos or progress reports. Know you are reaching out to another person. Not with a handout(施舍物), but a “handup”. That’s how “Save the Children” works. But without you, it can’t work. Please take a moment now to fill in and post the form below to help a child like Maria and her village.
It can make such a difference in her life and yours.
【小题1】We can most probably read the letter in __________.

A．somebody’s diary	B．a newspaper
C．a progress report	D．a storybook

【小题2】From the passage, we can infer （推断）that _________

A．Maria is an 11-year-old girl.

B．Maria’s family is very poor.

C．Maria has to do a lot of hard work.

D．Maria is hoping to get schooling.

【小题3】What is “Save the Children”?

A．An organization to help poor children go to school.

B．An office of the government to collect money.

C．A program shown at theatres to help the poor.

D．A group who works for children in poor places.

【小题4】The underlined word “sponsor” means “__________” in Chinese.

A．回报

B．资助

C．感恩

D．抢救

【小题5】What does the last sentence in the letter mean?

A．If Maria goes to school, you will be rewarded.

B．What you give is more than what you take.

C．Both Maria’s life and yours will change a lot.

D．Marie and you can help each other at school.

People at home keep asking me, "Is it hard to learn Chinese? Why have you learned it so well?" Well, there's one thing that makes Chinese easy to learn: there are so many people to talk to. You've probably heard that it's the most spoken language. Today it's also one of the most written languages online. And with so many Chinese people interested in learning English, it couldn't be easier to find a friend for language learning. You just have to know where to look for them.
The really good place to look for them is QQ. QQ has the same status(地位) in China as AIM (AOL Instant Messenger) does in the US. It is reported that at any moment, up to 9,000,000 people are using QQ. They're at work, or in a web café(网吧), or at home, and the information of the users can be found. If you sign on with your address set to "abroad", you'll soon find that many thousands of them are interested in speaking to you! This is a great way for you to learn Chinese, and for them to learn English. I think that it's a very interesting way of cultural contact(文化交流), too, for ordinary people from around the world to be able to have one-on-one contact.
【小题1】In the first paragraph(段落), the writer tells us ___________.

A．why his family members want to learn Chinese

B．where you can find people to talk to for language learning

C．the easiest thing to do is learning Chinese

D．Chinese isn’t so hard to learn as his friends think

【小题2】From the second paragraph we know that QQ and AIM are __________.

A．addresses for the Internet users	B．documents you need to get online
C．tools for people to talk online	D．programs of a computer

【小题3】Offices, web cafes and homes ____________.

A．attract the most people to learn Chinese

B．provide both QQ and AIM in China

C．are the best places for English learners

D．have the most people online

【小题4】The writer wrote this passage mainly to __________.

A．tell a way of learning Chinese

B．show what the Chinese people are doing

C．tell the important of learning Chinese

D．show the difference between AIM and QQ

【小题5】The writer of this passage is probably ___________.

A．a Chinese who works abroad	B．an expert who works at home
C．an American who works in China	D．a salesman who sells soft wares

 选择句子，补全对话，其中有两项是多余的。

A: Hi, Zhou Qiang. Haven’t seen you for too long!  1. 

B: I’ve just been to the Three Gorges (三峡).

A: Really?   2. 

B: Right. As you know, we’ve built a great dam (坝) across the Changjiang River.

A:   3. 

B: Yes, the dam is stopping water these days. And the water is rising 2 meters every day until it is 135 meters high.

A: Oh, it’s said the beautiful scenery (风景) of Kuimen will be under water. What a pity!

B:   4.   It has been copied in another place with some other places of interest.

A: Great！I want to go to the Three Gorges this summer. Would you like to go there with me again?

B: I’d love to!  5. 

A.Is the dam beginning to work?

B.But I haven’t been there yet.

C.Don’t worry.

D.Is it hard to build the dam?

E.Where have you been?

F.It’s reported that it has changed a lot.

G.We’ll see a new Three Gorges then.